I regret to inform you that compared to PCs, Macs are actually less powerful. Don’t buy the Apple hype.

Of course, you’r enot going to get the most out of a PC’s power with an OS like Windows. Linux and BSD bring about the fullest potential of your hardware much better.

I like Macs as well. Except for one or two bugs in Adobe Illustrator, and the fact that some of my software (3ds Max) is not made for Mac, therefore I am locked into being a windows user until those 2 things are met.

Anyway, sorry for the ramble, I used to do Data Entry for Apple, and they PAID for the computers we were working on, and they were Windows. Thought I would share that tidbit with everyone. It tells me this. If you don’t need all the power and overprice of Macs, than a PC is good enough, even Apple agrees.

Ever wonder why a Mac is so easy to use, because after all these years, the basic interface is the same!

Microsoft completely changed the start menu and it is disconcerting at best, difficult to use at worst, and the overly pretty gadgets, flowers, hummingbirds, creepy desktops and bling make it just plain distracting. Do corporate users really want to see a hummingbird on their desktop everytime they shut down their PC?

Aero sucks, it always has sucked. Its not pretty, and its a hideous waste of screen real estate that even in the 1920 x 1200 age, is something that should never be wasted with overly thick window edges and close gadgets that look like they were borrowed from Fisher-Price toys.

Windows 7 is slow. On a quad core intel with 8 gigabytes there is no excuse for it to be slow. There are 10-15 second delays between clicking on something and something actually happening. Thumbnailing is slow even with my Nvidia card that puts out more heat than a foot warmer. The entire GUI feels like it was written in Visual Basic, its that slow.

Gaming: So far only some of my games even work, and anything with copy protection is broken and unusable under Windows 7.

If this is Microsoft’s future of computing, be prepared to pay for a dual processor 8 core system with 32 gigabytes and RAID 10 to compensate for the slowness of the OS.